- Tales of the Green Beret
"Tales of the Green Beret" is a
comic strip created byRobin Moore andJoe Kubert . It began as adaily strip , running for 72 numbered strips starting20 September 1965 . The following year it returned daily and Sunday, beginning4 April , with scripts byHoward Liss . There were 8 Kubert stories:*1965: "Viet Cong Cowboy",
*1966: "Kidnap Ksor Tonn", "Sucker Bait", "Chris Kidnapped", "Project Oilspot",
*1967: "Freedom Flight", "The Syndicate", "Prince Synok".Kubert left the strip in January 1968. His last Sunday was Jan 7, his last daily Jan 10. The strip continued for a short time with art by
John Celardo .The first story was reprinted in a
Signet Books paperback from TheNew American Library ; most of the strip has been reprinted in three books from Blackthorne and in two magazines fromDragon Lady Press . Falling between the two reprint sets is most of May1967 . The last few Kubert strips,December 31 1967 and later, have not been reprinted, nor have any of the Celardo strips."Tales of the Green Beret" continued to be published as an
American comic book byDell Publishing from1967 -1969 .ee also
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Robin Moore
*Joe Kubert
*United States Army Special Forces in popular culture
* [http://matttauber.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-with-joe-kubert-about-robin.html Interview with Joe Kubert about this comic strip]
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